116
classic episodes My Favorite Husband
87 classic episodes of
My Friend Irma
393 bonus classic Old Time
Radio Shows
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My Favorite Husband:
My Favorite Husband is the name of an
American radio program and network television series. The
original radio show, starring Lucille Ball, evolved into the
groundbreaking TV sitcom I Love Lucy. The series was based on
the novels Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage
(1940) and Outside Eden (1945) written by Isabel Scott Rorick,
the earlier of which had previously been adapted into the
Paramount Pictures feature film Are Husbands Necessary? (1942),
co-starring Ray Milland and Betty Field.
My Favorite Husband was first broadcast as a one-time special on
CBS Radio on July 5, 1948. CBS's new series Our Miss Brooks had
been delayed coming to the air, so to fill in the gap that week
CBS aired the audition program (the radio equivalent of a
television pilot) for My Favorite Husband. Lucille Ball and Lee
Bowman played the characters of Liz and George Cugat, and a
positive response to this broadcast convinced CBS to launch My
Favorite Husband as a series. Bowman was not available to do the
series, so when it debuted later that month it starred Lucille
Ball and Richard Denning as the leads. The couple lived at 321
Bundy Drive in the fictitious city of Sheridan Falls, and were
billed as, "two people who live together and like it."
My Friend
Irma:
My Friend Irma, created by
writer-director-producer Cy Howard, is a top-rated, long-run
radio situation comedy that spawned a media franchise. It was so
popular in the late 1940s that its success escalated to films,
television, a comic strip and a comic book. Marie Wilson
portrayed the title character, Irma Peterson, on radio, in two
films and the television series. The radio series was broadcast
on the Columbia network from April 11, 1947, to August 23, 1954.
Dependable, level-headed Jane Stacy (Cathy Lewis—and Joan Banks
during Lewis' illness in early 1949) began each weekly radio
program by narrating a misadventure of her innocent, bewildered
roommate, Irma, a scatterbrained stenographer from Minnesota.
The two central characters were in their mid-twenties. Irma had
her 25th birthday in one episode; she was born on May 5. After
the two met in the first episode, they lived together in an
apartment rented from their Irish landlady, Mrs. O'Reilly (Jane
Morgan, Gloria Gordon).
Irma's boyfriend Al (John Brown) was a deadbeat, barely on the
right side of the law, who had not held a job in years. Only
someone like Irma could love Al, whose nickname for Irma was
"Chicken". Al had many crazy get-rich-quick schemes, which never
worked. Al planned to marry Irma at some future date so she
could support him. Professor Kropotkin (Hans Conried), the
Russian violinist at the Princess Burlesque theater, lived
upstairs. He greeted Jane and Irma with remarks like, "My two
little bunnies with one being an Easter bunny and the other
being Bugs Bunny." The Professor insulted Mrs. O'Reilly,
complained about his room, and reluctantly became O'Reilly's
love interest in an effort to make her forget his back rent. In
1953, Conried dropped from the cast and was replaced by Kenny
Delmar as his cousin, Maestro Wanderkin.
Irma worked for the lawyer, Mr. Clyde (Alan Reed). She had such
an odd filing system that once when Clyde fired her, he had to
hire her back again because he couldn't find anything. Useless
at dictation, Irma mangled whatever Clyde dictated. Asked how
long she had been with Clyde, Irma said, "When I first went to
work with him he had curly black hair, then it got grey, and now
it's snow white. I guess I've been with him about six months."
Irma became less bright and more scatterbrained as the program
evolved. She also developed a tendency to whine or cry whenever
something went wrong, which was at least once every show. Jane
had a romantic inclination for her boss, millionaire Richard
Rhinelander III (Leif Erickson). Another actor in the show was
Bea Benaderet.
Bonus Radio Shows:
As a sampler of our old
time radio library, we are including these
classic old time radio shows on this DVD-ROM at no extra charge:
Bill Lance |
Bill Ring |
The Family
Altar |
Family
Doctor |
Famous
Radio Plays |
Father
Coughlin |
Father
Edward Flanagan |
Favorite
Story |
Fitch
Bandwagon |
Five Star
Matinee |
Flair
Hosted by Dick Van Dyke |
Flannery
O'Connor |
Flether
Henderson |
Foodtown
Hops Review |
Forbidden
Cargo |
Forecast |
Forever
Tops |
Forty
Million |
Forward
March |
Foundation |
Fountain of
Fun |
Nat King
Cole |
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